1165. Helping Grads to Grown-ups Get on Their Path to Success

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

"We ended up with over 2,000 recruiting firms buying our training model. But after 2 years, I was just bored out of my mind! Once a month we were doing the exact same 5-day training. I missed doing the executive searches myself. That's just what my passion was, that's what I loved doing and where my talent was. So, we ended up re-acquiring our old company. I think one of the goals every human should have is to find something they sincerely love doing, and then doing it well enough that they can make a living from it. I found that! I found that in the executive search business."

Gene Rice's business career includes working for a Fortune 100 firm–where he was promoted 5 times in 7 years–to co-founding Rice Cohen International, a successful executive search firm. He has placed over 1,000 C-level executives while mentoring many young professionals. In 2008, Gene and his wife started a nonprofit charity, The Plant a Seed Inspire a Dream Foundation, which has enabled over 800 children from low-income households to pursue their passions. Gene and his daughter, a teacher, have recently co-authored the book "Grad to Grown-Up."

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0:00.0	Hello, world.
0:11.8	Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.
0:14.8	I'm your host, Don Hutchison.
0:17.0	Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:27.2	On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.
0:39.3	I'm to London to bring you our featured guest, Gene Rice. Welcome, Gene. Don, thank you for
0:45.3	having me. It is our pleasure. Gene, are you using your talents doing work that you love? Absolutely.
0:51.8	All righty. We want to hear the whole story. Gene Rice's business career includes
0:56.9	working for a Fortune 100 firm, where he was promoted five times in seven years, to co-founding
1:03.2	Rice Cohen International, a successful executive search firm. He's placed over 1,000 C-level executives
1:09.9	while mentoring many young professionals.
1:12.6	In 2008, Jean and his wife started a nonprofit charity, the Plan of Seed Inspire a Dream Foundation,
1:19.6	which has enabled over 800 children from low-income households to pursue their passions.
1:25.6	Jean and his daughter, a teacher, have recently co-authored the book,
1:30.4	Grad to Grown Up. His greatest successes are his marriage, his children, and grandchildren.
1:36.3	Well, Gene, you have an amazing story, and we want to hear the whole story, but take just a couple of
1:41.4	minutes, please, and just tell us some projects you're working on right now that have you excited and motivated.
1:46.7	Well, Don, you know, the book that I wrote with my daughter is now out, right?
1:52.8	Grad to grown up.
1:54.3	So the publisher has me doing an awful lot of interviews.
1:58.1	We've got a book signings coming up up and it's the first time I've written
2:02.3	something like this. So that's keeping me extremely, extremely busy. I'm the chairman still of
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